#34 Ice Cream, Nature and Polymerist in Reading.email. Also bum breathing.
Sharing a link to a newsletter is nice
Like many people, last weekend I was able to have dinner with old friends who I had not shared a meal for 16 months. (Credit to Andy Slavitt who went from White House to podcast to White House.)
Casual conversations confirmed the importance of newsletters. Four different times during a good discussion people asked me to email a link to a particular newsletter. The titles included “Popular Information from Judd Legum”, “The Ink from Anand Giridharadas”, “Newsletter Crew” and “This Week in Newsletters from Revue”. These friends had asked about how I found out information about a topic, I mentioned a newsletter and they unprompted asked me to share a link.
So I opened Reading.email on my phone and used the “Share” button newsletter that appears when reading any newsletter. It was nice to share. Thank you friends.
It dawned on me that I’ve neglected to add the “Share” button to Finding.email and how useful that would be. I’ll be adding that. Finding.email is also not appearing in Google search because of some technical issues and I’m hoping for a fix soon.
On to newsletters.
This Week's Promoted List
Ice Cream can be a fun list but it needs more scoops (newsletters). The first newsletter is Ben & Jerry's Chunkmail. While reading it you may crave a double scoop as the weather warms up. But it also covers current issues like "How racist resistance to the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision lead to the School-To-Prison Pipeline". The other newsletter in this list is from Salt & Straw, a California Bay Area ice cream shop that has produced an excellent cookbook of ice cream recipes. Both will expand your ice cream taste horizons. I'll keep looking for more scoop newsletters.
This Week's Promoted Newsletters
Nature Briefing provides a digest of several science stories every weekday with links to articles in Scientific American, ABC News, Sapiens, their own Nature magazine, and others. The curation is excellent and covers Covid news. This issue includes a link to "Mammals can breathe through their bums" which may not sound serious, but this could save lives someday.
Polymerist is a personal newsletter from a professional chemist with three issues a week: one in-depth article, one round up (no pun intended) and a Sunday curation of reading, writing and watching. In time of climate change this more humanistic view of chemistry is good for all. The discussion of layoffs was surprisingly broad. I look forward to adding it to my reading time this weekend.
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